My Life in France… by Julia Child
“…Julia Child liked everything about France. And her memoir, ‘My Life in France‘, is an affectionate merci for all that France gave her. This book, written with her husband’s great-nephew, Alex Prud’homme, before Child’s death at 91 in August 2004, is really a love story: she loved Paul Child, 10 years her senior; she loved France; she loved French cooking; and she loved life. Listen to her: ‘The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.’ And a few pages later: ‘Oh, how I adored sweet and natural France, with its human warmth, wonderful smells, graciousness, coziness and freedom of spirit.’ Yes, mes amis, that’s love!
In a foreword, Prud’homme explains that the book had been gestating since 1969, when Julia and Paul organized the records of their life in France between 1948 and 1954: hundreds of letters home, piles of black-and-white photographs (79 are in this book, many taken by Paul) and Julia’s notes as she prepared her influential cookbook, “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” published in 1961. Love it ! Bon appétit!’” Review from The New York Times
US$22 Amazon. Publisher: Knopf (April 4, 2006)
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